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elleltia.

Headword: 
elleltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to hinder, hold back

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 217.

IPAspelling: 
eːlleltiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

elleltia. nin. (pret. oninellelti.) arrepentirse o pesarle delo que hizo, o refrenarse, eyrse ala mano.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 28v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

elleltia. nite. (pret. oniteellelti.) estoruar o retraer a otro de alguna cosa, o impedirle.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 28v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

Class 3: ōniquēlltih. contains same ēllel- as ēllelmati.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 217.

Attestations from sources in English: 

elleltia (verb) = ref., to regret, to repent, to abstain; act., to prevent, to hinder, to impede, to cause pain Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 153.